FLL 2010 - "Body Forward"

This year the FLL Teams discover the exciting world of Biomedical engineering. With the help of the Challenge Topic “Body Forward” the FLL Participants will explore the cutting edge world of Biomedical Engineering. They discover innovative ways of repairing injuries, overcoming genetic predispositions, and maximizing the body's potential. All with the intended purpose of leading more valuable and healthier lives.

See details of registration and subscribe an FLL Team until September, 30th, 2010.

FLL Schedule 2010/11

We would like to contribute our share for an agreed ecological balance of the robotic competition and that is the reason why we call up all FLL Teams to operate their robot with rechargeable accumulators. Teams that use accumulators in its robot will be honoured with a "green smiley" on their regions website.

There will be approx. 700 school teams taking part in FLL with more than 5,000 students, who will construct and program their robot. On average one team uses 80 batteries, which leads to 56,000 used batteries in total. We would like to reduce this pile of battery rubbish clearly and ask all FLL Teams to change of thinking by using rechargeable accumulators instead of batteries for the operation of their robot.

Many teams do already work with individual or various accumulators. Our aim is to achieve that as many teams as possible deny batteries totally since the performance of an accumulator may be a lower than the one from batteries. But this might be one of the challenges for teams! But if a robot manages to show a good peformance although using accumulators this is a sign for the cleverness of its young constructors and programmers.